John Brooks, spokesman for the Chicago-based ELCA, recently spoke with the NewsOK, an Oklahoma Newspaper. The newspaper said that Mr. Brooks “estimates about 25 gay and lesbian individuals have been ordained since the policy change.” (read here) That doesn’t include the unknown number of gay and lesbian ELCA clergy who were ordained before the 2009 decision under the rules that homosexuals could not engage in sexual activity.

However, the really disturbing result of the ELCA’s action has been the multitudes of ELCA members whom the leadership has deceived and gotten to condone something that God, for our own good, told us not to do.

Also disturbing is that the ELCA is preaching this damaging lifestyle to our children. The Lutheran, which calls itself, “The magazine of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America,” has a story in the April 2011 edition called, “ELCA Camp Experiences Support Gay Youth.” (see here) (Exposing the ELCA reported on these camps last year - see here and here)

The article promotes the ELCA’s gay youth camps and ministries. You can be assured that the ELCA is not telling the youth what the Bible says about homosexuality, even though that is the loving thing to do. Also, the youth should be told that, with God's help, many people have left the homosexual lifestyle. (see Exodus International)

Jesus says, “And if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a large millstone tied around his neck.” Mark 9:42

What exactly is "support for gay youth"? It almost certainly means that ELCA is endorsing teenage sex. It is likely ELCA camps are using materials from the Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) that celebrate and encourage sexual activity between children as young as the first grade. And not just same-sex sex, but also sex between young boys and girls. What did you do at summer camp? may be a question ELCA parents don't want answered.

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Janet Y Muldoon

4/6/2011 05:00:04 am

It is deeply disturbing to think that children and teens are being identified as homosexual either by themselves or other people. How does that happen? Why would a church denomination sponsor a camp for children and teens identified as such when there is no scientific or Biblical reasoning to support it. Is the denomination involved for the purpose of supporting these children in their self or others identification of them as homosexuals or are they not? Think about this: Jesus began his ministry at age 30. Why do you suppose God planned it that way?

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Dan Skogen

Former ELCA seminary student and former ELCA member who is fed up with the ELCA's consistent mockery of God's Word.

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